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Plot the point given by the following polar coordinates on the graph below. Each circular grid line is 0.5 units apart.(2, -1)

Plot the point given by the following polar coordinates on the graph below. Each circular-example-1
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In polar coordinates we must have two things to plot a point, it's the radius and the angle

If we use a negative angle, it just means that we are doing the rotation clockwise.

Therefore the point (2, -π) is

We do a 2 units long line and rotate is by -π, the result is

Plot the point given by the following polar coordinates on the graph below. Each circular-example-1
Plot the point given by the following polar coordinates on the graph below. Each circular-example-2
Plot the point given by the following polar coordinates on the graph below. Each circular-example-3
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